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Page 176 - Let the torch of visible community be lit! Let the reason of Israel disclose itself in a great outward deed, and let there be another great migration, another choosing of Israel to be a nationality whose members may still stretch to the ends of the earth, even as the sons of England and Germany, whom enterprise carries afar, but who still have a national hearth and a tribunal of national opinion.

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Page 95 - Canada, etc., but in the Holy Land they would find a greater certainty of success; here they will find wells already dug, olives and vines already planted, and a land so rich as to require little manure. By degrees I hope to induce the return of thousands of our brethren to the Land of Israel.

Page 193 - Zionism strives to create for the Jewish people a Home in Palestine secured by public law. The Congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end: (1) The promotion on suitable lines of the colonization of Palestine by Jewish agricultural and industrial workers. (2) The organization and binding together of the whole of Jewry by means of appropriate institutions, local and international, in accordance with the laws of each country. (3) The strengthening and fostering of Jewish...

Page 176 - ... beggary to await death in loathsome idleness, but as a republic where the Jewish spirit manifests itself in a new order founded on the old, purified, enriched by the experience our greatest sons have gathered from the life of the ages.

Page 94 - From all information I have been able to gather, the land in this neighbourhood appears to be particularly favourable for agricultural speculation. There are groves of olive trees, I should think, more than five hundred years old, vineyards, much pasture, plenty of wells and abundance of excellent water ; also fig trees, walnuts, almonds, mulberries, &c., and rich fields of wheat, barley, and lentils...

Page 95 - I hope to induce the return of thousands of our brethren to the Land of Israel. I am sure they would be happy in the enjoyment of the observance of our holy religion, in a manner which is impossible in Europe.

Page 193 - The Congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end : ( 1 ) The promotion, on suitable lines, of the colonization of Palestine by Jewish agricultural and industrial workers. (2) The organization and binding together of the whole of Jewry by means of appropriate institutions, local and international, in accordance with the laws of each country.

Page 95 - Alexandria, but the land and villages to be free, during the whole term, from every tax or rate, either of Pasha or Governor of the several districts ; and liberty being accorded to dispose of the produce in any quarter of the globe.